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by Barrin92 1y ago
Exactly my experience as someone in the ostensible target demographic, late twenties to mid forties social circle. Granted I'm German with most friends/family in central/Eastern Europe so a bit less Instagram obsessed than th
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>’90s and early ’00s about kids who couldn’t tear themselves away from their computers. Fear was overblown, but made headlines. How was it overblown, we now have a non-trivial amount of completely de-socialized men in particular who live
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>it’s that perceived savings from using AI are nullified by new work which is created by the usage of AI: I mean, isn't that obvious looking at economic output and growth? The Shopify CEO recently published a memo in which he claime
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>bureaucracy, as a term, pretty much says so. Bureaucracy, as per Weber, is nothing but the rational and impersonal administration of resources and exists in any sufficiently large institution, private or public. It is in fact so efficie
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by Barrin92 2y ago
One of the best pieces of advice I got in uni from a teacher on writing, which sounds pretty simple but can be tough to do, was: always write in your own voice. Writing is thinking, and when you're adopting phraseology, entire sentence
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by Barrin92 2y ago
>Or is it that if they publish Chinese-first models it won't get publicity in the West? This is a large part of it. Kai-Fu Lee's company ( https://www.01.ai/ ) has been publishing open source Chinese language&#x2
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by Barrin92 2y ago
>Google really doesn’t wan’t anyone who isn’t a company developing apps for Android lol I mean, it's Android. You can publish an app yourself or through an alternative app store. Given that you have options on the platform I don&#x2
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> as a film, consciousness springs from nothing. But it doesn't. Because the film depends on the screen and the projector. This was one of Kant's central points, although he used the fancy term "transcendental unity of app
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I don't really understand the logic here. All the actual signal about what artillery in bushes look like is already in the original training data. Synthetic data cannot conjure empirical evidence into existence, it's as likely to
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People want slop, they always wanted slop and there is no magical mind controlling powers in a Facebook feed. It was the case in the age of TV, magazines and when nobody had any idea how to even measure what people want. If Mark Zuckerberg
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by Barrin92 2y ago
what an odd coincidence to see David Haig mentioned in the article. I just stumbled over his interview on Sean Carroll's podcast a few days ago, discussing the exact same topic ( https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podc
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>People are energy preserving creatures and we skip paying attention if we can. Paying attention saves you energy in the long run. In the words of Gus Levy, nothing wrong with being greedy, but there's two types of greed, long term
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I think it's a pretty fundamental mistake to conflate the library with the internet. Even the "dangerous section" of the library is still a curated, by nature of the medium (the printed word), high information, low noise envi
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It's funnily enough the opposite for me, people always give me weird looks when I say that Lovecraft is my favorite author to read when I'm anxious or stressed but there's something cathartic and honest about it. "Cozy
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by Barrin92 2y ago
Love these minimal game projects. Reminds me of .kkrieger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.kkrieger
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For individuals killing is incredibly rare. Most people will never take a life, and even historically haven't. It also of course doesn't follow that merely because killing happens it doesn't cause moral injury, it's obvi
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Already exists in a lot of places. German national IDs for like 10 years or something like that have an eID feature. It's basically just a public/private key signing scheme. The government and a bunch of other trusted public provi
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I've never understood the conspiratorial use of that slogan because it's unironically correct. Ownership is economically a cost and a risk and you're generally better off if you can utilize something without owning it or dist
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by Barrin92 2y ago
I'm not entirely sure what makes you think there's no financial regulation or laws you can break outside of securities trade, because there is and which is why he's charged with wire and commodities fraud, Hobbs Act extortion
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>Cancer incidence is flat to slightly decreased since then This is a nonsensical point because it can trivially both be true that cancer rates fall overall while CT scans cause additional cases of cancer. The comparison has to be, and th
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by Barrin92 2y ago
>I wonder if his books would have been as good if PKD hadn't been so fucked up as a person I can't even see how most of them would've existed to be honest. Most of P.K. Dick's work is about his mental issues in partic
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by Barrin92 2y ago
>Compared with other countries, adults in America spend less time doing household chores such as mopping and ironing; I definitely noticed this with exchange students from the US a little more than a decade ago in uni. In Germany it&#x27
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The budget deficit is not the trade deficit. You are not taking on debt when you purchase a foreign good, just like you as an individual don't take on debt when you go to Walmart and exchange money for goods but Walmart doesn't bu
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>Software in Germany is built to achieve a means to an end. It is never the end goal itself. Well, that's how it should be, I don't write software to worship any software deities, I use it to get a job done. If you don't y
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by Barrin92 2y ago
>Is it a failure of Bluesky to never become the global town square, No, because that's an oxymoron. There is no such thing because a precondition for a town square (which in reality is a community of people, not a place) is that the
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>It is an inherently populist narrative, one that appeals to nostalgia I don't agree with this or the article at all. There's very little nostalgia, if any, in Black Mirror. (nostalgia being a desire to return to the past, or r
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It sounds like the opposite, a language popular and practical enough to the point where people actually use it across a wide range of cases and skillsets. The reason why the books don't exist for <highbrow language of choice> is
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> Javascript is Lisp in C's clothes? On what basis? On a lot of bases. Javascript has real lambdas, a sort of homoiconicity of code and data (hence JSON as a data format), also has the same dynamic take as lisps on "types belon
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>You don't need to start with a high level language. I didn't say that. I said you can start with a high or low level language. I did literally mention C in my own post as a decent starting point. Rust however is not a beginn
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>Knowing what I know now, I wish Rust existed when I started out so that it could have been my first language No offense but I don't think this makes any sense (or only if you take the first part of that sentence literally). It&#x27

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